HACKER Q&A
📣 vinaypanghal

What tools and AI copilots help onboard developers to new codebases?


thought experiment: If you could ask an AI one question about your codebase to help onboard developers, what would it be and why?

  👤 devsoul Accepted Answer ✓
Here are some of the tools which you may like:

- GitHub Copilot - CodeSee - Sourcegraph - Swimm - GitLoop - bloop - Codex Atlas

If I could ask an AI one question about a codebase to help onboard developers, it would be:

What are the main architectural patterns and dependencies in this codebase, and how do they interact with each other?

👤 austin-cheney
Why the fuck is there so much indecision?

If you want to minimize learning time impose safeguards around simplicity (fewer) and be extremely draconian about it. This is extremely upsetting to many developers because it eliminates all their favorite code styles and expressiveness.